Bus massacre

The Bus massacre occurred on 13 April 1975 when members of the Tigers Militia - a Lebanese Christian paramilitary group - ambushed a bus carrying armed Arab Liberation Front fighters and sympathizers as it returned from a PFLP-GC rally in Tel al-Zaatar, Beirut, Lebanon. Bachir Gemayel commanded the Christian firing squad, which opened fire on the bus as it drove through a narrow alleyway. 27 passengers were killed and 19 were wounded, and the "Bus massacre", which occurred after a series of minor clashes between Palestinians and Christian Lebanese, led to the outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War.